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  • *'''''[https://0-eebo.chadwyck.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/home EEBO: Early English Books Online]''''' ...ugh the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War." Digital page images.
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  • *1:( Cavalier ) historical a supporter of King Charles I in the English Civil War. ...during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War English Civil War], the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 – c. 1679). Cavaliers were a
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  • ...ge of [[behaviors]] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience civil disobedience] and mass [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance ...on in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War American Civil War]. It also includes members of paramilitary forces who take up arms against
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  • .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] invasioune, from Anglo-French invasion, from Late Latin invasion-, invasi ...a larger [[strategy]] to end a [[war]], or it can [[constitute]] an entire war in itself. Due to the large [[scale]] of the operations associated with inv
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  • .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''werre'', from Anglo-French ''werre'', ''guerre'', of Germanic origin; ak ...es or [[nations]] (2) : a period of such armed conflict (3) : [[state]] of war
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  • ...lly ("American [[values]]", "U.S. forces"). "American" is rarely used in [[English]] to refer to subjects not connected with the United States. ...lar, a single unit—e.g., "the United States is"—after the end of the Civil War. The singular form is now standard; the plural form is retained in the idio
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  • ...acetate discs]]. With the development of audio tape recordings after World War II, the task of oral historians became easier. ...r careers, others are focused on a specific period in their lives, such as war veterans, or specific events, such as those with survivors of Hurricane Kat
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  • .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] tresoun, from Anglo-French traisun, from [[Latin]] tradition-, traditio ac ...citizen]]'s [[actions]] to help a foreign [[government]] overthrow, make [[war]] against, or seriously [[injure]] the [parent nation]." In many nations, i
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  • ...velation; a vain confidence of divine favour or communication." In current English vernacular the word simply means intense enjoyment, interest, or approval. ...atrocities, and thus it was an absolute social sin to remind others of the war by engaging in enthusiasm. The Royal Society bylaws stipulated that any per
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  • .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''coverfeu'', [[signal]] given to bank the [[hearth]] f ...university students on the West Coast of the United States during [[World War II]], African-Americans in many towns during the time of [https://en.wikipe
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  • ...Latin, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Monarchia De Monarchia], which in English translates literally as "On Monarchy". Dante's work was published in 1329, ...ius Hugo Grotius] and published in Paris, on the [[legal]] [[status]] of [[war]]. It is now regarded as a foundational work in [https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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  • ...llowing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War English Civil War] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Settlement_1701 Protestant Succe
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  • ...at this person had resided at St Columb Major in Cornwall during the Civil War. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] implies that '''Automatic Writing''' is that writing done by a
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  • .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''mantel'', from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] ''mantellum'' ...oak worn from the 12th to the 16th century and during the American [[Civil War]] by both sexes, although by the 19th century, it was used to describe any
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  • ...l instead of city walls. This proved disastrous during the [[Eighty Years' War]], as it allowed Spanish troops to easily occupy the town. Parts of the city sustained heavy damage during [[World War II]]. The [[Atlantic Wall]] was built through part of the city, causing who
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  • ...makes clear that the tyrannical autocracy of King George the Third and his English aristocracy had to transform into American democracy, the [[power]] of the ...in the purveying of death than the glorification of life; more enslaved to war and oil and money than liberating themselves and the world’s people to se
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  • ...to him by Michael of Nebadon. You have lived through so many centuries of war and hatred; of killing each other by petty differences in appearance as wel ...nd righteousness is that the people of the great America threw the yoke of English rule; we said with one voice back then “NO MORE”, no more will we be st
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  • ...and four faculty members present. It is also recorded that after the Civil War, [[Robert E. Lee]] was offered the position of Vice-Chancellor but declined ...to teach or attend class -- perhaps the last vestige of this historically English practice in North America. Similarly, the Highlanders and Wellingtons "dri
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  • ...ims of many classical theorists and sociologists immediately after [[World War II]], religion has continued to play a vital role in the lives of [[individ * James Hunter, noteworthy for anticipating the “[[culture]] [[war]]s” of the late 20th century, especially their religious [[character]].
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  • ...us institutional representatives (i.e., a church), replacing or dominating civil government.[3] Theocratic governments enact [[Theonomy|theonomic]] [[law]]s ...kings); the meaning "priestly or religious [[body]] wielding political and civil power" is recorded from 1825.
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  • ...criminal cases there are usually 12 jurors, although Scotland uses 15. In civil cases many trials require only six. ...the jury of local men, and the royal justices ushered in the era of the [[English Common Law]]. Sheriffs prepared cases for trial and found jurors with relev
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  • ...early 1990s. Despite many communist successes like the victorious Vietnam War (1959-1975) or the first human spaceflight (1961), the communist regimes we ...ivil right to vote for all men including the unprivileged. Among the early English social reformers was [[Robert Owen]], the founder of cooperative movement a
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  • ...of the clergy and the nobility. This idea was extended and refined by the English barony when they forced [[John of England|John]] to sign the ''[[Magna Car This provision became the cornerstone of English liberty after that point. The [[social contract]] in the original case was
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  • ...oks?id=wrACAAAAIAAJ The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language]. New York: The Century Co. Page [https://books.google.com/books?i ...y]]. In German, French, and indeed, most languages of the world other than English, this distinction was never made, and the same word is used to mean both "h
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  • ...on'' can also refer to society as a whole. To nineteenth-century [[England|English]] [[anthropology|anthropologist]] [[Edward Burnett Tylor]], for example, ci ...rbarian|barbarism]]"; as contrasted to ''civility'', meaning politeness or civil virtue — until the 18th century.
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  • ...decisions]]. Although the term is generally applied to [[behavior]] within civil governments, politics is observed in all [[human]] [[group]] interactions, ...nfucius]] ([https://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/analects.html] available in English here])
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  • ...on debate, opposed the death penalty, supported affirmative action and the civil rights movement. In some dioceses, openly homosexual men and women can be o ===The English Church in British North America (1497-1775)===
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  • However, many civil rights and [[privacy]] groups such as the [https://www.eff.org|Electronic F ...ntify who they have been with—has been argued by some to present a risk to civil liberties.[33]
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  • The English word ''socialism'' (1839) derives from the French ''socialisme'' (1832), th ...rally and aurally close to the Papist Roman Catholic communion rite, hence English atheists denoted themselves ''socialists''.
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  • English Common Law from the 1300s until the middle of the last century made suicide ...states following suit over a period of several years.[15] After the Civil War, voluntary euthanasia was promoted by advocates, including some doctors.[16
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  • ...ng [[law]]s based on [[scripture]] (such as the Torah and Sharia law) with civil laws, and eliminating discrimination on the basis of religion. This is said ...ded by God. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pg. 147 ("But with the Second World War just ahead, secularism fo the antireligious type was soon to disappear from
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  • [[Henry Watson Fowler]], in ''The King's English'', says “any definition of irony—though hundreds might be given, and ve ...World War I" was originally called "The War to End All Wars" or "The Great War". Historical irony is therefore a subset of [[cosmic]] irony, but one in wh
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  • ...e. An example of a widely used controlled natural language is [[Simplified English]], which was originally developed for [[aerospace]] industry maintenance ma * Crystal, David (2001). ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language.'' Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
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  • ...l in military affairs generally; military skill and experience; the art of war. (Cf. sense 2.) ...ine and ordering their war. 1659 B. HARRIS Parival's Iron Age 41 School of war..where all the Martiall Spirits resorted, to learn Discipline, and to put i
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  • ...demands of the creditor of the state, that the first and original faith of civil society is pledged. The claim of the citizen is prior in time, paramount in ...f Burke remain a central tenet of conservative thinking across much of the English-speaking world. As one [[Australia]]n scholar argues, "For Edmund Burke and
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  • JT: I have a listener who is on the call, but for whom English is a second language, and he asks: As it is known, there are many alternati ...everyday part of the life of citizens and that eventually the processes of civil society begin to collapse upon themselves. As you can see or use that asses
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  • ...of what those words [[represent]] to you, our mortal students. Nor are we English nor Spanish, but through the [[methods]] afforded us through the gracious m ...own, where you have day and night, [[love]] and [[hate]], [[peace]] and [[war]], [[male]] and [[female]] – not that these are so much depicting contras
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  • ...y one's own existence, is the first step toward becoming the "Übermensch" (English: "overman" or "superman") that [[Nietzsche]] speaks of extensively in his p ...mporal order. Confusion commonly arises since many different statements in English may be presented using "If ..., then ..." form (and, arguably, because this
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  • ...rer in the meat-packing industry. He also served in the U.S. Navy in World War I, as a shipboard [[radio]] operator, as an editor of a publication, and as ...shness," he declared, "is unnecessary and hence-forth unrationalizable.... War is obsolete."
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  • ...inning in June 1775, soon after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. When Congress began considering a resolution of independence in June 1776, ...ca: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War ISBN 1-59555-055-0) Public disapproval of his performance delayed his futur
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  • ...most commonly associated with the resurgence of magical tradition in the [[English]] speaking world of the 20th century. Other, similar [[movements]] took pla ...hunted down and eaten as though they were game animals. Both sides of the war regarded them as "subhuman" and some say their flesh can confer magical pow
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  • ...ficers and [[leaders]] that [[rape]] is not an acceptable way to fight a [[war]] and bring about [[ethnic]] cleansing. Please help the [https://en.wikiped ...when you encounter someone that's from another country and doesn't speak [[English]]. You're more [[tolerant]] of their [[behavior]] and their (?) than you ar
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  • ...s://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50014052 atheist] predates ''atheism'' in English, being first attested in about 1571. ''Atheist'' as a label of practical go ...ism outside the salons and into the public sphere. Attempts to enforce the Civil Constitution of the Clergy led to anti-clerical violence and the expulsion
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  • ...resentations/POST_WWII.PDF#search=%22stanley%20marion%20garn%22 Post World War II"]. 2005. August 28, 2006.</ref> whereas a new opinion among geneticists Not until the [[16th century]] did the word "race" enter into the [[English language]], from the [[French language|French]] "''race''" - "race, breed,
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  • ...ate one? 1875 TROLLOPE Prime Minister (1876) I. i. 6 He had been at a good English private school. 1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. (FT 1,000 Schools Suppl.) 3/3 S ...t to pryuate menne. 1589 G. PUTTENHAM Arte Eng. Poesie I. xxiv. 38 It [sc. war] toucheth the whole state, and euery priuate man hath his portion in the da
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  • ...is also a risk of inner civil war in such a [[diverse]] being. Inner civil war, [[conflict]] causes you to lose the [[peace]] that Michael [[promised]] yo ...Spirit. This is an [[active]] fight. This is not [[passive]]. You are at [[war]] with your lower nature. Ah, but the [[victory]] for your [[Adjuster]], fo
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